Ali Natour - Project Manager (traditional) Program Management (cross-enterprise)

Fischbach, Germany

Experience

Sep 2024 - Present

11 months

Project Manager (traditional) Program Management (cross-enterprise)

Bank and Financial Services Company

Project and program management of a cross-project (bank and financial services company) in the payment, authorization and card transaction area.

Jan 2024 - Mar 2024

3 months

Managing Director, Lean Portfolio Management Expert

Client in Automotive, Finance & Sales sector

Lean Portfolio Management for the sales and marketing groups (Sales IT, After Sales IT, Brands, Markets and Enterprise Financial Services).

Jul 2023 - Dec 2023

6 months

Project Management, Project Coordinator, PMO Coach

Client in Automotive, Finance & Sales sector

Project management, resource planning, capacity allocation and tracking of capacity usage. - Time management, PMO coaching.

Jan 2022 - Apr 2023

4 months

Management Consultant, Agile Transformation Expert

Client in Automotive, System Engineering sector

Created an MVP concept for the rollout of the scaled agile working method according to the Scaled Agile Framework SAFe® to support the company-wide initiative.

Dec 2020 - Dec 2022

2 years 1 month

Managing Director, Management Consultant (supporting PMT leadership), Lean Portfolio Management, Lean and SAFe® Expert

Automotive Group

Transformation consulting and Lean Portfolio Management for PMT, project and product management, enabling enterprise transformation based on SAFe®, Lean Agile and System Engineering for the group and some of its brands. - Program and solution management. - Process optimization and operationalization.

Oct 2019 - Dec 2020

1 year 3 months

Agile Teams Coach, Scaled Agile and SAFe® Expert, RTE Offer

Client in Automotive, Finance sector

Agile Teams Coach for the system team as well as the Car Sales Finance Offer and Leasing Teams in a SAFe®-scaled environment as RTE Offer.

Sep 2018 - Sep 2019

1 year 1 month

Agile Teams Coach, Scaled Agile Expert

Trading and Industrial Goods Brokerage Company

European central settlement (EZR) of a trading and industrial goods brokerage company: enterprise and team agile coaching, scaled agile, enterprise architecture, introduction of DDD.

Jun 2018 - Dec 2019

7 months

Management Consultant, Scaled Agile and SAFe® Expert, Enterprise Agile Coach

Large Telecommunications Corporation

Agile transformation through SAFe® introduction/implementation for the wholesale division of a large telecommunications corporation.

Apr 2017 - Jul 2018

1 year 4 months

Agile Transformation Expert, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Enterprise Architecture

International Bank

Agile transformation at an international bank, coaching transition teams and agile coaching, coaching the enterprise architects in enterprise architecture.

Jun 2016 - Dec 2016

7 months

Agile Transformation Expert, Agile Coach, Scrum Master

International Bank

Agile transformation, scaling Scrum in one of the four divisions of an international bank.

Jul 2014 - Dec 2015

1 year 6 months

Scrum Expert, Software Developer

Client in CRM and Inventory Management for the Heating Construction sector

Development of change requests and new customer requirements. - Optimization of the development process. - Company-wide introduction of Scrum, including staff training. - Introduction of agile requirement engineering procedures.

Feb 2014 - Jul 2014

6 months

Agile Requirement Engineering, Methodology, Agile Coach and Scrum Master

Client in IT Consulting, Health Care sector

Introduction of an agile requirements management process, coaching of the requirements engineers team.

Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

3 months

Dev Lead, Team Lead CRM Scrum Coach

Client in CRM and Food & Inventory Management sector

Support in the development and leadership of internationally distributed teams. - CRM mobile devices application.

Oct 2009 - Apr 2012

2 years 7 months

Project and Program Management (with budget and disciplinary responsibility), Team Lead, Chief Architect, Scrum Expert

Client in Media and Broadcast sector

Developed a content management system with device control for the media and broadcast industry, highly available (with redundancy system and load balancing). - Introduction and practice of Scrum. - IT strategy optimization. - Definition of work methods and development processes.

Feb 2008 - Dec 2009

11 months

Software Architecture, Chief Architect, Scrum Coaching

Client in Health Care sector

Software architecture for the backend systems of a clinical data management system (CDMS), building a new system. - Scrum introduction.

Jul 2007 - Feb 2008

8 months

Software Developer, Scrum Master

Client in Medical Solutions sector

Implementation and integration of service software into the web portal (SyngoBase). - ASP.NET and web development.

Jan 2007 - Present

18 years 7 months

Germany

Managing Director, Large Scale Lean & Agile Transformation Expert, Lean Portfolio Manager, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Agile

YourSystems

Project execution on behalf of YourSystems for various large and medium-sized companies, such as: - VW, VW/CARIAD SE - Daimler AG - Technicolor/Thomson - Porsche Digital GmbH - Commerzbank Group - ING-DiBa - EuroHypo Bank - Roche Diagnostics International - Deutsche Bank - Siemens Medical Solutions - Deutsche Telekom - Markant Services GmbH - Viasys Healthcare - Carl Zeiss AG - Grass Valley Germany - Cardinal Health

Jan 2007 - Jun 2007

6 months

Kaiserslautern, Germany

Senior Software Engineer, Scrum Master

Insiders Technologies GmbH

Intelligent document processing. - Software development. - Support in practicing SCRUM.

Sep 2006 - Dec 2006

4 months

Kaiserslautern, Germany

Senior Technical Consultant

CAS GmbH

Jun 2006 - Aug 2006

3 months

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Senior Technical Software Consultant, Scrum Master

Trivadis GmbH

Rollout of business communications and printing framework.

Sep 2005 - Dec 2005

4 months

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Software Developer, Scrum Master, IT Consultant

Trivadis GmbH

Foreigners' central register (AZR), traffic central register (VZR) offline, establishing Scrum within an existing V-Modell XT.

Nov 2004 - May 2005

7 months

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Software Developer, Scrum Master, IT Consultant

Trivadis GmbH

MPOL-IPCC development and refactoring of the mobile area of MPOL within the IPCC projects.

Aug 2004 - Aug 2006

2 years 1 month

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Senior IT Consultant and IT Coach, Team Lead (Scrum Master), Scrum Coach, Project Manager, Software Architect, Software

Trivadis GmbH and Trivadis AG

Nov 2000 - Jul 2004

3 years 9 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Team Lead, Tech Lead, Project Manager, Software Architect, Software Developer, Consultant, Agile Coach and Business Developer

andrena objects ag

Nov 2000 - Apr 2003

2 years 6 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Technical Team Lead, eXtreme Programming & Scrum

andrena objects ag

Production planning and control system (real-time monitoring).

May 1998 - Oct 2000

2 years 6 months

Kaiserslautern, Germany

Software Developer

Markant Südwest, maxess systemhaus GmbH

Co-development of a new inventory management system (WWS2000).

Summary

In the past 27 years I have worked in various projects across different industries. I have held roles in medium and large enterprises in different capacities, e.g. as Senior Management Consultant, Agile Expert, Transformation Coach (Scaled Agile Expert, Enterprise and Team Agile Coach), Enterprise and Chief Architect. I also have many years of project experience in strategic projects, rollouts, budget, project and team responsibility. In addition, I led national and international teams both functionally and disciplinarily across countries with different mentalities and interest groups in internationally operating companies.

In recent years I have focused on strategy and management consulting with an emphasis on Lean Portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Agile Coaching, Scaled Agile, digital and agile transformation. In this field I support organizations, executives and teams on their journey to a more efficient way of working, greater self-organization and increased "Business Agility". I assist decision makers, project and product managers, product owners, architects and developers in their day-to-day operations within agile practices as well as in establishing and optimizing the necessary processes.

I act pragmatically and very practice-oriented. My methodological and leadership experience as well as my background in roles such as software developer and architect help me quickly understand complex issues, select suitable solution approaches and make critical technical and strategic decisions with confidence.

Specializations, Consulting Focus:

Strategy and management consulting, Lean Portfolio Management
Large Scale Lean & Agile Transformation Expert
Enterprise and Team Agile Coach
Project management for agile transformation projects in large enterprises
Budget, project and team accountability
International project and leadership experience
Chief Architect, Enterprise & Software Architect
Instructor & trainer for agile certifications (SAFe®, SCRUM™)
Agile requirement engineering within scaling and SAFe®

Specialization and consulting focus:

Lean Portfolio Management, Enterprise Agility and Program Execution
Process design, optimization of business and work processes, services and products
Scaling frameworks and Business Agility (SAFe®, LeSS, Nexus)
Building scaled environments: team, ART, solution and value stream structures
Introduction and adaptation of necessary tools for agile scaling (e.g. Jira, Jira add-ins, Confluence, Enterprise Architect, …)
Agile, traditional and hybrid program and project management, multi-project management
Agile requirement engineering: refinement, planning, execution and integration
Training agile leaders, with certifications in SAFe® and SCRUM™
Coaching agile & servant leaders, agile teams, communication & motivation
Enterprise & Software Architect (SOA, DDD, RFLP, ITSM, ITIL, DevOps...)